This post may contain factual errors. Nuff said.
Pappi assigned me on a photographic task, of snapping pictures of the Candolim beach being eroded by the River Princess. The River Who? In June 2000, an ore carrying barge drifted out of its dock, an lodged itself in the shallow waters of the Candolim-Calangute bay. What followed was 9 years of bureaucracy, red tape, and court cases, none of which yielded any results in getting the fucking boat out of the waters. If you’re ever looking for a good example of the failure of democracy, this is it.
So, 9 years later, how bad can it be? It’s just one boat, stuck in sand around 100 meters into the sea. Let me paint you a picture of the stretch of beach that has made Goa one of the hottest tourist spots. The white sands stetched across 10 kilometres from end to end, wide enough to run a four lane highway through it. While the sea kept the edges wet and hard, the body of the beach was filled with dry sand, free of any debris or dirt, with nary a plastic bag in sight.
Of course, tourism took its toll on the beach as it got crowded, busy, and littered with plastic. But the beach itself was always laden with sand, that even withstood the construction industry’s constant plunder. So you can imagine my surprise when I lay sight on it with my Nikon in hand; to find the entire fucking beach had disappeared! Right from aguada fort to beyond candolim, the entire beach had withered away into a two metre wide wet muddy banks, one which you can’t take a pleasant walk on, let alone relax. I don’t have the before pics, but you can certainly see what’s happening as the aftermath.
You can see the boat in the distance
Government tries to stop the sea with sand bags. Fucking jokers.
See that rocky stretch in between? I’ve never seen those rocks before.
A stretch of beach that’s not affected by the boat (the other side), although you can see what tourism has done to ruin it as well.
The River Princess is just a symbol of our Government’s incompetence.
Oh ! So that vessel is stuck there ! Wow !
I thought it was some random vessel ( It’s not a Boat . Please. ) floating around. ( when I was at Candolim ).
I don’t believe it is the same Candolim that I visited last year. Or maybe we didn’t venture out on that side, luckily. The pics are disgusting enough. But I can’t make out what are they trying to do by digging and all that ? Are they trying to free the vessel or something ??
They aren’t doing anything at the moment, as the tender is being shuttled around from court to government office, to another court. The digging is to protect all those [possibly illegally built] houses that are losing ground.
So what kind of chemical corrosion or physical erosion has been escalated because of the ship? what is the cause? the paint? metal? just the waves?
what the fuck !!!!! so is it the BJP or the sena or that fucking congress government ever going to take what they call action on the bitch issue (beach) no its good this way now some sad sone of a beach can sell that fucking land there & build resorts
great then some cheep fuckers will be rich
this yash guy is he like the innocent or the ignorant type
^^ He’s the just-plain-fucking-dumb type
^^ O you are so modest.
I remember we had gone to this beach on a school trip. We though the beached tanker looked pretty cool.
These photos bring a lot of school memories back. Thanks.
Actually, I have the same question. What has the stuck boat got to do with it all? Why has the beach area become reduced?